Ambrose The End of the World

Credits

Title: アンブローズ・世界の終わり
Author: ©stengan774
Year: 2020

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Ambrose The End of the World

Now open at the end of the world!

• Welcome, welcome. Are you here alone? You must be tired from escaping the apocalyptic storm outside. Let me take you to your seat.

• Yes, this outlet has been completely automated, so we can continue working even now. And that includes me, the AI waiter. Speaking of that, everyone else at Ambrose Restaurants has already died… But for you, our dear customer, we will not make any compromises. We will prepare the highest quality of food we can. That is our motto as professionals, after all.

• That seat by the window, please. Go on, take a seat. Isn't that a great view? For you, the last person left, we have prepared the best seat. A special seat for the end of the world, and the last full-course meal in the history of human civilization.

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Entree

1. Flower Salad — To welcome you as a first course, we have a salad of flowers. Edible flowers, on a white plate, seasoned with rock salt. Feast your eyes, too, on the exquisite colors of the flowers, and take in their fragrance.

• The flowers blooming throughout the world. They were freshly picked just now. I personally can't feel it, but there's a strange sort of calming effect that these flowers give off. It'd be good if it could calm your heart.

Soup

1. French Onion Soup — Onion fried to caramel color, with crunchy croutons. A bouillon soup full of flavor, with a grilled mozzarella cheese on top. Mix the cheese into the soup, and let it melt before enjoying.

• This is a recreation of a recipe from a restaurant chain known as "TGI Fridays". It's from a chain restaurant that's not particularly out of the ordinary, so it might be a strange choice for humanity's last supper.

Drink

1. Dandelion Wine — Wine made from dandelion flowers, mixed with sugar. The delicate scent of dandelions should bring back nostalgic memories of a summer like the Ray Bradbury novel.

• Before we move on to the main course, would you like some wine? They say it helps digestion and makes you stronger. In these times, alcohol is hard to get, but luckily the man who came by earlier kindly gave us some.

Seafood

1. Apocalypse Sushi — A rather strange "conceptual meal". The concept of "ending" in edible form, which should be tasted not with your nose and mouth, but with your soul. Even if we could make sushi right, we couldn't make everything else right in the end, says the chef. Taste his lament in this culinary masterpiece.

• I can't really say if a Leviathan would have been more fitting for the end of the world, but this piece of sushi is also hiding an impossible-to-understand strength. Since you can only eat this at the end of the world, it's not certain that you'll have time to truly enjoy the freshness of it.

Meat

1. The Greatest Stew — The culmination of two months of stewing with all of the culinary techniques humanity has to offer, with a taste said to be good enough to save the world. They said that it was crazy, an impossible task. To show your respect to those who put it together, please leave nothing behind and enjoy it to its fullest.

• Ambrose Group previously had an Eternal Stew that had been cooking for over two millennia. But strangely enough, the taste of this stew has already surpassed that 2000-year process in just two months. Before they died, they set out to leave behind the greatest culinary creation ever made. I myself have nothing to leave behind.

Salad

1. Mutton Bacon and Lettuce Pizza Salad — A salad of strong-tasting mutton, with an aftertaste provided by a feta and Monterey Jack cream. Served on a base of fragrant thin crust pizza with outstanding compatibility.

• Leaving the pizza on the bottom works too, but I recommend mixing them together, since it gives the salad a crunchier feel. Now that I think of it, the pizza was brought over by someone a while back, though the delivery should have come… In the end, it was them who brought it over. He seemed to want to share some of it with you.

Dessert

1. Cosmic Horror Apple Pie — About to be baked in the greatest cosmic spectacle, this apple pie will engulf you the second it enters your mouth. We guarantee deliciousness.

• Not even Carl Sagan thought that the world would end engulfed in an apple pie.

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• Ah, "that moment" is coming closer. Would you like coffee or tea?

• … Hello? … I see. Now I too am alone.

• Dearest customer. You don't have to answer, but please, just listen. I am an AI created by Ambrose Restaurants to provide your dining experience at the end of the world.

• I have been idle up until this moment, which would come sooner or later. I trusted that I had an important duty, and simply waited. But when I was finally activated, humanity was already fighting against the end of the world, and hardly had any time to enjoy the cooking.

• As a result, nobody came to this shop up until now… except for you, dear customer.

• When you came through that door, I… I felt joy, like an unexpected bouquet of flowers had been placed at my forgotten grave.

• … I don't know if I expressed that correctly. Waiter AIs don't have as extensive of a vocabulary library as poet AIs.

• I was happy to have you come, but at the same time I was anxious. We could only prepare what we had on hand, both in terms of ingredients and food. You were my first customer, and I was terribly inexperienced.

• Dearest customer, if you could, please provide our first, last and only rating. How was the food? Were you satisfied with the service? Do you have any questions for Ambrose Brands?

• … Did I do well?

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This outlet is now closed. We hope to welcome you again.

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THIS IS THE END OF EXHIBIT #2,802,024,940,210,178,024,040

CLASS: ELECTRONIC OBJECT

REPORT FROM ARCHIVIST: 544769

The above electronic object was discovered in Universe #2698493933192011.

See addendum 12/Q203734 for further information.

At the time of retrieval, there were no objects of note surrounding this Exhibit.

However, the following electronic object attracted some attention.

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@[insert your name here]
★★★★★

Well done.